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CannCon and Chris Paul bring Badlands Daily live from GART 12 in Deadwood, South Dakota with a Friday show full of Supreme Court decisions and congressional takedowns. Venezuela is hit with back to back 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes as the country was beginning its reintegration into global trade, and Trump immediately offers federal assistance. The Brandon Gill versus SNAP hearing clip goes viral: the SNAP director cannot confirm that drinking soda every day is unhealthy while testifying in front of Congress, and Gill reveals her advocacy group is funded by General Mills, which profits directly from SNAP dollars. A House Oversight...

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid had to actively look for things to be sad about this week and could not find any. Yesterday and today the White House went full blown Q in public for the first time. The "Q means Quantum" post hid a special character at line 48, which decodes to Q drop 48 about Q clearance and the Department of Energy. The fake Always Trust 47 post landed at 14:25 Eastern, which decodes to Q drop 1425 reading "given we have now undeniably on purpose verified ourselves to be an inside source." Then the War CTO posted at 9:18 matching Q drop 918...

Ghost opens episode 116 with Trump's latest gaggle confirming the Hormuz naval blockade is history, US farmers are getting paid to feed Iran, and critics like Ted Cruz need to be "educated" on the deal's terms. The IAEA inspections dispute gets the full treatment: Ghost breaks down how Iran only denied inspecting its bombed facilities, not all facilities, and why the media is deliberately misrepresenting the gap. Pakistan PM Sharif and Iran's president both confirm ballistic missiles were never on the table, period. Ghost then turns to the Jerusalem News Syndicate summit, walking through Mark Levin's unhinged speech, Netanyahu's "kill...

Jon Herold comes in Tuesday on a short show before heading to Deadwood and delivers two things worth staying for. First, a pointed and honest analysis of who is actually hyping the White House quantum computing posts as Q confirmation: Jon asked seven OG Anons who have no financial stake in being right, and all seven said it looks like a troll. The only people going all in are content creators trying to monetize. He asks why that is and lets the question sit. Then he plays the GART trailer, a mock news broadcast depicting a fictional future where...

CannCon and Ghost open the final show before GART week in Deadwood with a Tuesday packed with stories that connect in ways most people are not seeing. An AP investigation with a named whistleblower reveals the DEA knowingly allowed 74,000 fentanyl pills to flood New Mexico between 2023 and 2025 to catch bigger fish while running the "one pill can kill" public campaign at the same time. Bill Pulte walks into ODNI and CNN immediately runs a smear piece while Letitia James attacks his qualifications despite simultaneously backing Jay Clayton, who has identical gaps in intelligence experience. Ghost and CannCon apply the...

Jon Herold and Zak Paine open Episode 190 with a laugh at Zak's expense after a fake Q alert briefly fooled him live on air, followed by a genuine debate about what the White House Q meme actually signals and why the decoder community is not the same thing as the Q drops themselves.

Then the show picks up where Episode 189 left off on the GATE program, and this week the audience showed up with receipts. Jon walks through a GATE curriculum binder from Monterey that instructed children to keep its contents secret from their parents, a New...

Was Hitler a Christian nationalist hero or a black magician puppet of Satanic bankers? Matt Ehrett, filmmaker and author of "Black Sun Rising," joins Ashe to answer that question and then some. From the Thule Society's demon-summoning sessions at Wewelsburg Castle to Michael Aquino running Operation Phoenix in a US military uniform after being initiated into the Church of Satan, this episode goes places your high school history class definitely did not. Ehrett and Ashe also cover Canada's fake independence day, George Soros getting kicked out of China in 1989, and why the same ancient occult formula that built Nazism...

Think Tesla was a persecuted genius who just wanted to give the world free energy? Matt Ehret would like a word. In Part 1 of this deep dive, he traces Tesla's closest friendship to George Sylvester Virek, Hitler's official Washington spokesman, Aleister Crowley disciple, and organizer of the 1939 Madison Square Garden Nazi rally. Along the way Ehret documents Tesla's enthusiastic support for mandatory eugenics, his belief that humans are soulless automatons with no free will, his claim to have received radio signals from Martians, and his tele-automaton demos that turned out to be a guy behind a curtain with a...

The rematch is here, and the boys still haven't recovered from last time. Part 2 of the Battle of the Sexes crossover brings together CannCon and Christy, Cam and Jackie, Ashe in America, and Alpha Warrior for another round of trivia chaos during a special GART Week edition. Stakes are high: the losers serve drinks at Live DPH and rename their show. Expect heated debates over car battery voltages (12 vs. 12.6, a saga), pearl light bulbs that nobody has ever heard of, David Beckham's exact position on the pitch, and the correct way to describe rustling silk (it's "frou," apparently, and...

Jon Herold comes in Monday one day from Deadwood and GART, which means the show is lighter on prep and heavier on honesty. Reuters confirmed what Jon's source already told him: the White House has been sitting on the ODNI voting machine vulnerability report for months over concerns it could undermine voter confidence, and Jon asks the obvious question about what a limited hangout looks like if the report just says the machines need a software update. His source still says the election declass is on track for Wednesday. The White House and Department of War CTO both posted...

CannCon and Zak Paine open GART week with a Monday show full of political fireworks before Deadwood. Trump called it on Truth Social over the weekend and it happened: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer resigns, becoming the seventh British leader in ten years. Zak connects Starmer's tenure to the Jimmy Savile prosecution he buried and the Pakistani rape gang cases he never brought. Colombia elects Trump-backed political outsider Abelardo de la Espriella in a razor-thin vote, and CannCon flags the remarkable connection: de la Espriella was the attorney for Alex Saab, the Maduro associate who briefed the Trump administration...

Burning Bright brings Ashe in America on for Father's Day and the eve of GART Deadwood for a wide-ranging episode that earns its title. The two map out why Trump's second term has been more frictional than most truthers anticipated, why that friction is a feature, and why the Republican establishment quietly emerging from its cave right now is exactly what a counter striker wants. Ashe breaks down the GOP's legitimacy problem through the lens of her transformation program framework, while Burning Bright closes with a fight nerd segment applying GSP's neural fatigue, Gaethje's half beats, and Jon Jones...

Jonathan Drake is still long winded, Section Two of Spooner's "Natural Law" is still just one paragraph, and yet somehow this takes an entire episode. Predictably, it earns every minute. The central distinction of the night is one that sounds simple until you think about it: being illegal is always immoral, but being immoral is not always illegal. Legal violations empower the executioner. Moral violations empower your neighbors to stop returning your calls. Meting out the punishment reserved for one in the case of the other is itself a short circuit. Jonathan then turns to the concept of exigency...

Jon Herold and Chris Paul open the Saturday show by finally finding the tape: CannCon saying, on video, that the gas price national average would hit $2.40 by July 4. Then things get serious. Tulsi Gabbard's final declassification releases get a full assessment and neither host is impressed. Russia collusion debunked again, Fauci lied to Congress again, Ukraine biolabs confirmed again. Chris Paul makes the case that officializing things people have known for five years is not disclosure. It is a limited hangout by definition. From there, the Save America Act gets the full treatment: Trump's attachment of transgender surgery language...

Episode 57 of Flow comes in hot the weekend before GART Deadwood with Cam Cooksey riding the high of attending the Czechia vs. South Africa World Cup match in Atlanta with Jackie. He walks through Trump's True Social posts: no tolls in the Strait of Hormuz, no money for Iran, the "not just 13, an unlucky number" Supreme Court signal buried in the filibuster post, and the May 1st "I have all the cards" picture revisited as Netanyahu's reelection teeters. The Iranian resistance flag getting confiscated from fans at the World Cup and the team being sent back to Mexico sparks...

Phil Scarborough dropped a new AI-generated OnlyLands intro that the crew watched three times and still could not fully process. That set the tone. From there it is wall-to-wall World Cup energy: Cam fresh off the Czechia vs. South Africa match in Atlanta, viral videos of Europeans discovering Bass Pro Shops and Waffle House, a US team winning odds debate that got personal, and the pride jersey question nobody can agree on. Then the show grinds to a loving halt over CannCon's gas price prediction from weeks ago, a chat jury poll, three rounds of clip evidence, and a...

No slides, no homework, just a party. Host Matt Trump declares his Juneteenth independence from slide preparation and delivers a warm, wide-ranging World Cup Friday night hangout. The big story? Europeans arriving for the FIFA World Cup and discovering that America is nothing like what their media told them. Buc-ee's, Waffle House, giant grocery stores, air conditioning, window screens, and the sheer size of the country are blowing Western Europeans' minds on YouTube, and Matt has the receipts. He connects this wave of foreign appreciation to Alexis de Tocqueville, the Frenchman who came to America in 1831 and never got...

Jordan Sather and Nate Prince are back in a pre-recorded episode packed with substance. Nearly two thirds of American men are overweight or obese, but for the first time in 50 years obesity rates have ticked down. Is it MAHA, peptides, or just economic stress cutting back the Cheez-It budget? RFK sends a formal letter demanding answers from a medical journal that quietly removed a study linking vaccines to SIDS, and Big Pharma's media allies are furious that someone had the audacity to ask why. Ron Johnson and Rand Paul keep pressing on COVID shot injuries while legacy media stays...

Ghost opens episode 115 on the day the Iran deal is officially ratified at Versailles, the Strait of Hormuz is declared open, and CENTCOM lifts the naval blockade entirely. But within hours, Israeli armor columns push north of the Litani River toward Nabatia, four IDF soldiers are killed including a battalion chief, and Iran cancels JD Vance's Geneva meeting in protest. Ghost walks through who actually signed the MOU for Iran (the head of parliament, not the Ayatollah, president, or foreign minister) and why that matters. The centerpiece of the episode is JD Vance's White House podium press conference, where...

Jon Herold comes in on Juneteenth in surprisingly good spirits and with a lot to sort through. Tulsi Gabbard released her COVID declass video on her final day as DNI, and Jon's take is the same as it always has been: Fauci directing the intelligence community to suppress the lab leak was already true in 2021 and her saying it now does not make it more true, though it might finally convince the people who needed an authoritative figure to say so before they believed it. Jon also shares a rumor from a well-connected source that the election declass is...

CannCon and Chris Paul close out the week on Juneteenth with a show that covers geopolitics, the courts, and an intelligence battle playing out in real time. JD Vance holds a press conference confirming the Iran MOU is producing results: 12.5 million barrels moved through the Strait of Hormuz the prior night, gas prices dropping below $4, and Iran honoring the agreement for the second night running. CannCon and Chris walk through Vance's pointed message to Israeli cabinet members attacking the deal and his revelation that the US has been funding Lebanon's internal security forces, the ones tasked with rooting out...

Chris Paul and Burning Bright close out the trilogy with Francis Ford Coppola's much maligned 1990 finale The Godfather Part III, now known as The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone. Starring Al Pacino, Andy Garcia, Diane Keaton, and George Hamilton, the film tracks Michael's failed attempt to leave the criminal world by going legitimate through a foundation and a Vatican real estate deal, while his nephew Vincent (Sonny's bastard son) rises as the next generational vessel for the family's worldly pursuits.

The guys argue this one gets a bad rap and is actually a fitting close...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior open with a tribute to a Marine major who kept calling fire missions through morphine and a broken body, then the show takes a hard left into the most ridiculed shark attack story in podcasting history. Alpha's Marine Corps nickname is Sharky, and the story behind it stretches credibility from the first sentence to the last. CannCon and the chat spend the better part of an hour grilling him on the size of the shark, the missing scars, the beef jerky in his cargo pocket, and whether a teenage Mako really shredded his shorts or...

Frank welcomes Logan from Luminary Lighthouse for his debut on the show, and the topic is the lost age of the rigid airship. The Hindenburg is the spine of the conversation: a luxury hotel in the sky that could circumnavigate the globe without refueling, that carried tens of thousands of passengers without a single injury before May 1937, and that died in a few televised minutes in Lakehurst. Why did one disaster end an entire industry every major country had invested in? Whose timeline got rewritten that day?

From there it goes deeper. The Empire State Building topped...

After roughly seven years and 132 episodes on Badlands, Taking it Back wraps up with the full crew back together: Adel Nero, Zak Paine, and Frankie Val. They open with a long reminiscence, from Patriot Soapbox and the early Q days to Adel's decision to finally show his face, Frank's brave early example, and Zak getting hooked on the boards before there was a public movement. From there, the conversation shifts to the news of the week: Trump's stunning pivot on Israel and Iran. Frank takes a victory lap on having been called a Zionist for not attacking Trump's Iran...

President Trump hosts a Congressional Medal of Honor ceremony for three recipients spanning Vietnam, the Easter Offensive of 1972, and Afghanistan. Marine Corps Major James Capers Jr. receives the honor he was recommended for in 1967, delayed nearly six decades after his commanding officer was killed before the paperwork could be signed. Colonel John W. Ripley is honored posthumously for single-handedly destroying a bridge to stop 30,000 North Vietnamese soldiers and 200 tanks over five straight hours under direct fire. Army Major Nicholas Dockery receives the award for a 2012 Afghanistan ambush where he rescued two teammates, administered CPR to a soldier who had...

CannCon and Ashe in America finish Part 1 of G. Edward Griffin's The Creature from Jekyll Island and the country-by-country bailout autopsy is relentless. Panama's canal gets handed to a dictator so his banks can collect interest. The Monetary Control Act of 1980 quietly authorizes the Federal Reserve to create money for any government on earth. Mexico defaults serially, gets currency swaps, debt swaps, and a $50 billion Clinton bailout bypassing Congress entirely. Brazil, Argentina, China, Poland, and Russia all run the same play. The Great Deception chapter argues the fall of communism was stage-managed for global convergence, not organic. And Griffin...

Ghost and Ashe in America walk through Season 4 Episode 4, the aftermath of Reyma's death. Quintus gets demoted, not for killing a Jew but for killing a Roman citizen in front of a crowd, because in Rome the offense was always optics. Gaius gets elevated to Praetor with a heart that has already been quietly converting for months, slapping the water every day without realizing what it was building toward. The hosts walk through how the showrunners present every character outside the Sanhedrin on a sliding moral scale and what that says about the difference between Roman morality, Jewish morality...

Jon Herold comes in Thursday with plenty to say about the people who are saying plenty. The MAGA hawk crowd that spent months cheerleading US military involvement in the Middle East is now loudly attacking Trump over the Iran deal, and Jon finds the shoe-on-the-other-foot energy deeply satisfying. JD Vance ran the White House press conference and delivered one of the most pointed defenses of Trump's Israel positioning Jon has heard from anyone in the administration. Tucker Carlson, who spent months calling Trump a slave to Netanyahu, is now posting clips calling the deal a betrayal, and Jon asks...

Vice President JD Vance steps to the White House podium to deliver the first full briefing on the Iran MOU since its signing, opening with news that gas prices dropped below $4 for the first time since the conflict and 12.5 million barrels moved through the Strait overnight. Vance walks through the deal structure in detail: Iran gets nothing unless it performs, the US pays zero, and every sanction comes back on if they misbehave. He draws a sharp contrast with the Obama JCPOA, noting the deal was negotiated from a position of total military destruction rather than a position of...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior dedicate most of the Thursday show to what may be the most consequential document signed during the Trump presidency. CannCon reads through every clause of the Iran memorandum of understanding live: Lebanon mentioned by name, Israel conspicuously absent as a signatory, $300 billion in reconstruction funded by the Gulf coalition and not American taxpayers, sanctions lifted, Strait of Hormuz toll-free for 60 days, and an executive monitoring mechanism that CannCon and Alpha immediately identify as the Board of Peace. Alpha walks through his preplanning theory using Russian ship movements from August 2025 to argue Trump and Putin knew...

Jon Herold and Burning Bright break down the freshly signed US and Iran memorandum of understanding line by line, covering the naval blockade removal, troop withdrawals, the Strait of Hormuz reopening, the $300 billion reconstruction investment that is not a loan from American taxpayers, full sanctions termination, and the nuclear enrichment compromise that allows Iran a civilian program. Burning Bright pulls up his own June 2025 prediction that Trump would eventually allow enrichment, vindicated almost word for word a year later, and the guys walk through what that means for anyone who took Trump's no enrichment rhetoric at face value. They...

Episode 59 finds Shipwreck once again accidentally enraging the bot army by pointing out that gas in Iowa is still $3.74. She breaks down the wave of suspiciously identical replies in her comment section, leans into the dead internet theory, and explains why she now views voting and political engagement as an energy harvesting ritual. She also revisits the Strait of Hormuz, asks why nobody talks about Israel's nuclear stockpile, and shares an algorithm video about a mother and daughter who started arguing about bears because their phones served them opposite content.

Then a Miami mall conspiracy refresher, the...

Lt Gen (Ret.) Steven L. Kwast welcomes Jonathan Drake back to ask the question Kepler and Maxwell never thought was strange: what are the heavens declaring? Spoiler. They are declaring the glory of God, in patterns precise enough to govern physics and beautiful enough to fold into a sunflower.

Drake walks through his essay calling the ether the fingerprint of God, the toroidal Fibonacci pattern that shows up in magnetic fields, weather systems, and watersheds. The thread that pulls it all together is grounding. Source, radiation, return. Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Lover, beloved, and the love between...

- [Live] President Trump's Bilateral Meeting with the Prime Minister of Republic of India, Modi - [Replay] President Trump's Bilateral Meeting with the Arab Republic of Egypt - [Live] President Macron speaks at the end of the G7 summit in France - [Live] President Trump's G7 Press Conference President Trump opens with a warm meeting alongside Indian Prime Minister Modi before delivering the most detailed press conference yet on the Iran agreement from the G7 summit in France. He reaffirms that Iran will never produce, procure, or buy a nuclear weapon, explains the buried enriched uranium situation under Space...

Jon Herold comes in Wednesday with a guest and a document to dig through. Tech investor Matthew McDonagh joins to make the case that energy, not labor, is now the central lever controlling global power, framing the Strait of Hormuz blockade and the Iran conflict as moves in a larger energy dominance struggle against China. Jon then reads through the full leaked 14-point US-Iran memorandum of understanding line by line: the naval blockade lifts immediately, Iran gets its own frozen money back rather than new American cash, a $300 billion rehabilitation fund comes structured as financing rather than a gift, a...

Ashe in America and Ghost swap their usual roles for a Wednesday that starts absurd and only gets more interesting from there. California rolls out a state gay business certification program for utility contracts, and Ashe and Ghost spend a hilarious but pointed stretch walking through the certification criteria, landing on the serious underlying point that any government registry tracking sexual orientation is a tool that outlives the good intentions behind it. An FBI-foiled drone and sniper plot against Trump at the White House UFC event vanishes from the news cycle within eight hours of being reported, with two...

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid catch their breath after one of the wildest weeks in years. Iran's civilian government just ended the war, the Strait of Hormuz reopened, sanctions are coming off, and Trump's approval rating in Israel went from positive twenty three to negative twenty three in seven days. Save Israel for last is happening in real time. Mark Levin is having a public meltdown, the APEC lobby is in panic mode, and the MOU to Israel was never released.

The bombshell of the episode comes when the guys catch what Trump quietly admitted at the...

CannCon and Ashe in America take apart a Deseret News profile that positions Steven Richer, the former Maricopa County recorder behind the infamous "Drawer 3" ballot scandal, as the trusted Republican voice on why California's elections are secure. They walk through his claims about audits, fraud detection, and mail-in deadlines, pointing out that the very system he defends prioritizes ballot access over ballot accuracy. A philosophy clip on the structural impossibility of proving election fraud sparks a deeper conversation about why the design of the system, not any single data point, is the real evidence of intent. The bulk of...

Episode 114 opens with a War Room clash: Rabbi Wallachie acknowledges that US and Israeli interests are diverging, but Ghost steps in to correct his claim that Hezbollah is simply the Iranian army, walking through its actual origins as a resistance movement. From there, Ghost breaks down a heated Bannon segment where Wallachie denies any Greater Israel expansion plan, a claim Ghost dismantles using Ben Gavir's own statements about expelling Lebanese civilians. At the G7 in France, Trump publicly criticizes Israel's conduct in Lebanon, suggests Syria's Jelani take over the Hezbollah fight, and reveals he was angry about the Beirut...